Count William ("The Carpenter") de Melun I 
William, known as "The Carpenter", was born about 1042 in in or near Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Ile de France. "The Carpenter"'s father was Count Urison de Melun and his mother was Princess Adele of Vendome. His paternal grandfather was Count Herve de Melun. He was an only child. He died due to died in the Crusades in 1099 in Holy Land.General Notes
This William would have been about 56 years of age in 1098. The leadership at the seige of Antioch per the "Gesta Francorum" averaged 40 years old. It was his son that fought at Antioch. Did this William fight against the Moors in Spain about 1080/85 AD or against the Saxons at the Battle of Hastings in 1066?
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0940 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, France
- b.0938/0965 d.0992
- b.0978/0990 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Ile de France d.1021 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Ile de France
- b.0875 d.0922
- b.0917 d.0960
- b.0940 d.1004
- b.1009 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Ile de France d.1084 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Ile de France
- b.~ 1042 in in or near Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Ile de France d.1099 in Holy Land
- b.1017 d.1093
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They had a son named "the Carpenter".
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Children
Count William ("the Carpenter") de Melun II
William, known as "the Carpenter", was born about 1065 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, France. He died in Ypres, West Vlaander,Flanders, France.
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